News & Updates

Omaha police announced the arrest of James Fairbanks, who was arrested on suspicion of criminal homicide in the death of 64-year-old Mattieo Condoluci. Condoluci was found shot to death in his home this past weekend. Police arrested Fairbanks after he was linked to an an anonymous email sent to the media. The email claimed Condoluci was shot because he was

Below are two excerpts from article on the “memorial laws” and how they shaped society’s psyche and created a “stranger danger panic” nearly 40 years ago, that still remains today. The ACLU and others raised concerns that some memorial laws were too far-reaching, and had implications that were not being thoroughly discussed — including potentially increasing the likelihood that an

Kudos to our media committee for getting this point in the Daytona Beach News Journal ___ I just recently read the opinion article that was posted on May 8 concerning the subject of sex offenders — registered citizens. I was set back by several of Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly’s comments but especially his final comment on “safer Florida” and

In a letter to the attorneys in Does v. Miami Dade County, the Sex Offender Residency Restriction case that is currently before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the court notified that due to the Coronavirus, the Oral Arguments scheduled for the week of June 9, 2020 (when the case was scheduled to be heard) will either proceed on the

Yesterday, a Federal District Court in Tennessee found that the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry, as applied to the Plaintiff, violates the Constitution. The Court found; that the restrictions of SORVTA are much like traditional punishments of shaming, banishment, and probation, particularly when those restrictions are imposed for life, that the registry imposes an affirmative disability or restraint on Plaintiff, that

Obviously, there was a failure to communicate. In a blatantly thoughtless act, workers showed up Wednesday morning at a long-standing homeless encampment under an Overtown overpass, posted a metal sign in the ground saying anyone on the premises was trespassing, then forcibly removed the people — yes, the homeless are people, too — to who-knows-where. In the midst of the